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What Habitat Work Did You Do Today?
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Tangler
5 year old buck +
How about NH? I think I might do it next week!
Turkey Creek
5 year old buck +
Myself and my new sidekick Benjamin (he will be 2 months old in 3 more days), talked his mother (my oldest daughter) into letting us plant a apple tree in their backyard today when I stopped in to visit. Yes of course we planted a Lil' Benny! 
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Sandbur, if you bump into those swamp crabs and they have zombie fruit or scion keep me in mind. Looking to find a new variety for rootstock / seedling fruit that can handle being wet. Buying some of that pacific crabapple next year.
One of my local finds is 10ft from a small stream. Had good scion this year too.
Telemark, it's amazing clearancing oak trees.
Liming, fertilizing, and emergency watering a select few can really wake them up too. One dry year I had the only acorns around on my little 3 acre last home. Probably my best year overall for hunting too.
One of my local finds is 10ft from a small stream. Had good scion this year too.
Telemark, it's amazing clearancing oak trees.
Liming, fertilizing, and emergency watering a select few can really wake them up too. One dry year I had the only acorns around on my little 3 acre last home. Probably my best year overall for hunting too.
MW22392
5 year old buck +
Worked on some TSI last week, I don’t have any type of machinery so I’ve just been making nice neat piles of the slash. Found some beautiful sugar maple that I left, not helping the deer much standing but it’s one of my favorite fall colors. Maybe a logger will be interested in them one day.
chucker66
5 year old buck +
sandbur
5 year old buck +
Their fruit is very tiny. I like them for rootstock. I don’t think their scion would be any improvement over what you have.
I wish I could grow 10 plus of the rootstock.
Telemark
5 year old buck +
Can you coppice the tree and dump a pile of dirt on it?
sandbur
5 year old buck +
Mine are readily available.
I must have 6-8 or more rootstock that I nursed along and topworked.
Somewhere there is a picture of the root mass of a tree that blew over about 25 years ago. Some of the broken roots got leaves and I cut those back with a bud and some roots. Then I potted them for a year or so.
sandbur
5 year old buck +
The lower left of the picture is ice in the ditch bank. This tree grows that close to water and tolerates periodic flooding. Fruit size is about 1/3 inch.
sandbur
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That was my plan for those wetter rootstocks. Grow in a rootmaker pot, then tip on it's side for rootstock production.
Spread naother 20 bags of barn lime around the spots that were too wet last week. Collected some soil for my rootstock order next week.
Spread naother 20 bags of barn lime around the spots that were too wet last week. Collected some soil for my rootstock order next week.
Double Creek
5 year old buck +
Planted the last 100 Chickasaw plums. I pruned them heavily to use the dibble bar, so we shall see. No mats, no tubes.
I checked on all of my legitimate winter plantings that have tubes and weed mats. I’d say 70% are budding out. Within a month I’ll know what made it and what didn’t.
At least 50% of them have fire ant issues. I put some ant bait on maybe 25% before I ran out. That’s a priority for next weekend. Some of tubes had ants mounds 24” tall on inside. Several of the seedlings had buds despite being buried half of their length in ant beds. I got bit a few times…..
I checked on all of my legitimate winter plantings that have tubes and weed mats. I’d say 70% are budding out. Within a month I’ll know what made it and what didn’t.
At least 50% of them have fire ant issues. I put some ant bait on maybe 25% before I ran out. That’s a priority for next weekend. Some of tubes had ants mounds 24” tall on inside. Several of the seedlings had buds despite being buried half of their length in ant beds. I got bit a few times…..
Tangler
5 year old buck +
Awesome! I have 25 American plum in the way (shipping 3/23/26) and ai am going to start digging the holes for them. These are for “screening” mostly but I like the native fruit and browse potential!
PSA for my fellow cheapskates:
I use a lot of rods and stakes. 5' T-posts would be great, but they add up quick during prlanting season. So I use a lot of the 48" fiberglass "driveway marker rods". They have reflective tape on them and the idea is you can see headlights reflecting off the tape to identify where the driveway is at night (in snow, etc).
Menards sells 5/16" marker rods for around $1.89 regular price. I've never paid that. They occasionally put them on sale free after rebate (limit 20) or $0.50 after rebate, and I load up then.
On amazon, there's 1/4" diameter rods (1/16 thinner than Menards) for quite a bit less. Last fall I bought 100 for $55. When used as stakes, they're noticeably inferior to the ones from Menards, but for the price I was satisfied.
But right now there's one vendor selling them extremely cheap. I just got 250 marker rods for $60.90. That's slightly under 24 cents each. They're thin & weaker than I'd prefer. But they're still great for some things, like staking short tubes, and rodent cages.
I made a "grounding rod driver bit" for my cordless SDS+ hammer drill, so they're very easy to put in too.
Currently priced at $60.90 for 250 stakes, free shipping:
I use a lot of rods and stakes. 5' T-posts would be great, but they add up quick during prlanting season. So I use a lot of the 48" fiberglass "driveway marker rods". They have reflective tape on them and the idea is you can see headlights reflecting off the tape to identify where the driveway is at night (in snow, etc).
Menards sells 5/16" marker rods for around $1.89 regular price. I've never paid that. They occasionally put them on sale free after rebate (limit 20) or $0.50 after rebate, and I load up then.
On amazon, there's 1/4" diameter rods (1/16 thinner than Menards) for quite a bit less. Last fall I bought 100 for $55. When used as stakes, they're noticeably inferior to the ones from Menards, but for the price I was satisfied.
But right now there's one vendor selling them extremely cheap. I just got 250 marker rods for $60.90. That's slightly under 24 cents each. They're thin & weaker than I'd prefer. But they're still great for some things, like staking short tubes, and rodent cages.
I made a "grounding rod driver bit" for my cordless SDS+ hammer drill, so they're very easy to put in too.
Currently priced at $60.90 for 250 stakes, free shipping:
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Derek Reese 29
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ive used those when I ran out of the rubber coated steel rods I was using...have since switched to monstrous 1' long, 1" wide landscape spikes with a 90 degree end that I just hammer down around the bottom of my cages..
those reflective markers can also be used as great tree location markers to get an idea how to space out trees before you dig/plant
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